A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant Series #2)

by Josephine Tey

Overview

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer’s morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive—just like murder…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684842387
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	02/15/1998
Series:	Inspector Alan Grant Series , #2
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	159,147
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.

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